Fearn railway station

Fearn National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Manachainn Rois[1]
Location
Place Hill of Fearn
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 57°46′41″N 3°59′38″W / 57.7780°N 3.9940°W / 57.7780; -3.9940Coordinates: 57°46′41″N 3°59′38″W / 57.7780°N 3.9940°W / 57.7780; -3.9940
Grid reference NH815782
Operations
Station code FRN
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 7,226
2013/14 Decrease 6,606
2014/15 Decrease 6,130
2015/16 Decrease 5,396
2016/17 Decrease 5,262
History
Original company Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Post-grouping LMSR
1 June 1864[2] Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fearn from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Fearn railway station is a railway station serving the village of Hill of Fearn in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated on the Far North Line and is also the nearest station to Balintore, Hilton and Shandwick (the Seaboard Villages), Portmahomack and the Nigg Bay area of Easter Ross. The railway through Fearn station is single track, the nearest passing loops being at Invergordon to the south and Tain to the west. The station is 40 miles 60 chains (65.6 km) from Inverness, and has a single platform which is long enough for a seven-coach train.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Invergordon   Abellio ScotRail
Far North Line		   Tain
  Historical railways  
Nigg
Line open; Station closed		   Highland Railway
Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
   Tain
Line and station open

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 95.
  3. ↑ Brailsford 2017, map 18D.

Sources

  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.


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